Sit & Sew Radio Episode 39: Darlene & Andy Girton, the Featherweight Doctors

For Episode 39 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast, we are excited to have Darlene and Andy Girton of Featherweightdoctor.com as our guests. This husband and wife turned their passion for Singer Featherweights into a business in which they buy and restore the fabled workhorse sewing machines. They restore the machines […]

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5 January, 2018

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Top 10 Video Tutorials of 2017

We thought we’d start 2018 off by taking a look at all the video stats from 2017 and bring you a roundup of our most-watched video tutorials from last year. There were nearly 400,000 views and 2 million minutes watched of Quilt Addicts Anonymous videos last year, so we had a lot to sift through. […]

Stephanie Soebbing

1 January, 2018

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Christmas scrap buster! Check out this Ghost of Christmas Past tutorial

Click here to download the Ghost of Christmas Past pattern for free until December 31, 2017! Pretty much every quilter has scraps left over from Christmas sewing projects. The challenge is not all reds and greens are created equal. So while some reds looks great together in a line, they may look terrible next to […]

Stephanie Soebbing

26 December, 2017

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Kaffe, Christa and cupcakes

So I’ve had a crazy two weeks. In the last two weeks we’ve had five large events at the brick and mortar Quilt Addicts Anonymous, for which I made 78 cupcakes and one quilt for. And the cat used up one of its nine lives. Here are all the fun details, with pictures. First up […]

Stephanie Soebbing

11 December, 2017

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Tutorial: Turn your ugly sweaters into adorable mittens

This tutorial is an oldie but a goodie. It has received nearly 56,000 views on YouTube and almost 500 thumbs up. Long before Quilt Addicts Anonymous became a full fledged business, I used to raid thrift stores for ugly sweaters, take them home and turn them into adorable mittens to sell at craft fairs. They […]

Stephanie Soebbing

3 December, 2017

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Check out Leah Day’s podcast! I’m on it this week …

I will do interviews with local media any day of the week. Our brick and mortar shop is kind of the weak link when it comes to net revenue in the Quilt Addicts Anonymous brand. It makes money, but barely, and I know every time I chat with a local reporter, that number goes up […]

Stephanie Soebbing

2 December, 2017

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Before & After: Counsel makeover with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

  Have you ever made one tiny change in your home that lead to a major project? Like deciding to replace the faucets in your bathroom and pretty soon you have an entirely new bathroom and flooring in the adjoining hallway because one thing just keeps snowballing into the next? Well, that is pretty much […]

Stephanie Soebbing

30 November, 2017

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Kaffe’s Artisan Trunk Show is in the shop!

The UPS guy is pretty much my favorite person in the world that I am not related or married to. He brings me all kinds of goodies and today he brought the Kaffe Artisan Trunk Show to the shop! It is made with fabrics included in Kaffe’s Artisan 2017 collection. You can shop fabrics from […]

Stephanie Soebbing

24 November, 2017

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We’re in the news! And a virtual tour of the shop …

A feature reporter from one of our local TV stations popped by the shop last week to interview me about how the business has grown. You can check it out by clicking here. There are lots of dramatic pauses in the voiceover and they picked some of the weirdest sound bites that probably sounded cool […]

Stephanie Soebbing

22 November, 2017

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Sit & Sew Radio – Episode 36

Make sure you check out Episode 36 of Sit & Sew Radio, a Quilt Addicts Anonymous podcast. Click here to listen in your browser, or subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher. This episode is all about travel opportunities for quilters. I personally love checking out new quilt shops when I travel and we’ve got some really […]

Stephanie Soebbing

20 November, 2017

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